From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17203 invoked by alias); 18 Jan 2002 17:16:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17170 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2002 17:16:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.cygnus.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Jan 2002 17:16:16 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cygnus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73BF93D29; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:16:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C48585E.5080506@cygnus.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:16:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020103 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: thorpej@wasabisystems.com Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Support for alpha*-*-netbsd* References: <20020117224847.P15405@dr-evil.shagadelic.org> <3C4832FB.9060708@cygnus.com> <20020118081514.A28259@dr-evil.shagadelic.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00511.txt.bz2 > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:36:43AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > > I'm really sorry (this is so cruel) we (I guess you and me) need to get > > the Alpha at least partially multi-arched before I can accept this > > target. Anyone got access to a working alpha port? > > Err... I thought it was clear from my reply to your announcement that > Alpha would be obsoleted that I am planning on doing the work to multi-arch > the Alpha target. But I obviously need a working base to start from. > This patch provides me that working base. (You need to imagine someone walking around the room in frustration muttering things under their breath) For you it is a catch 22. Hopefully though most of the changes not in new files have been stripped out (the only one left is software single-step and I'm still thinking about that). This hopefully makes it possible for you to attack the alpha and get it to the same point as the i386 (notice how it isn't fully converted). For me, the problem is bigger. I'm trying to keep the decision to accept a new [native] target both simple and transparent. Or to put it another way, I do not want to put my self in a situtation where I'm open to suggestions of bias - allowing one person or organization to contribute a target non-multi-arch when, for a second, I refuse. sigh, Andrew